Photograph file size

[Ali Smith]

On Monday I added a reply to my French Collection thread. When I came to add the last photo I was informed it was too large and should be less than 976.56kB. I reduced the file size and all was well.
 
Today I attempted to add another reply and was told that another photo was bigger than 976.56kB, which it was, just. I reduced it to 874kB and it is still being rejected for being larger than 976.56kB.

I hadn't heard of this restriction before (I usually post at between 1 and 2MB) but I can live with it if it would only recognise when an image is smaller than the limit.

I am loading photos straight from my computer rather than using my album on the Forum.

Am I doing something wrong (I've uploaded loads of photos in the past without difficulty) or is there something wrong with the Forum?
 

[Fardap]

I recently also had this issue, some photos loaded others were rejected but the same initial size.

What I have also seen looking at sizes in My Gallery is if I upload a photo and then edit it within the forum gallery (rotate it for instance) then the resulting file might be Mb in size and not under 1Mb as it was - so all a bit odd to say the least.

At one point I was doing a 'bulk upload' of 4 images and one it wouldn't take as 'too large' yet was similar size to the others - even tried doing in pairs in case it was a 'total' for the 4 images but same issue.

No idea why.

[Newportnobby]

I always used to have the same issues but, since using Windows 10, all my pics open with the option to resize and I tend to halve the pixels which gives the forum no problems any more.
Reducing the pic by a percentage does not have the desired effect.